I love this answer!Charlie Sheldon wrote:Miriam - This is great, discovering what all you readers see in this tale. Why eight days? On the level of the story itself, that seems about the time someone could be gone and without food, alone, yet still have energy to emerge and struggle somewhere for help, a 13 year old anyway. I did not intend to have the number of days signify anything else, but I am learning that often times things appear in tales, put there by the author, that have meaning to readers, and are thus real. So, for those of you who know the Bible and the symbols and lessons therein, perhaps there is a correlation with the eight days, not necessarily put there by me (consciously), but still meaningful in relation to a reader's understanding of the Bible. On the story level as I wrote it, I know some readers struggled with this (questioning how Sarah could have an experience lasting perhaps months in the span of eight days). This is fascinating, because in dreams don't we sometimes experience days of time in a few hours? And if you believe Sarah had a vision, then her sense of time could be totally flexible, both linear time as well as time in the past And if you believe Sarah actually went somewhere and really lived that journey, well, then, isn't it a bit odd to question how her eight days could become several months yet accept (apparently) that she traveled in time thousands of years? This the magic realism element, to build a story entirely factual and real in nearly all elements such that the fantastic and impossible is accepted and seen as real, too, and hopefully for most of you readers that is what takes place. I sort of hoped that if a reader can pivot with Sarah to her journey the same reader will be fine with linear time changing as well, during that journey.....
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-- 04 Nov 2017, 12:55 --EveS523 wrote:Is any of this story based on truth?
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How much research into Native American traditions, folklore, etc did you do before writing this story?
Charlie, I really enjoyed your writing style. Could you tell me what your favorite book you have written is? I would love to read another tale. Thank you.
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I would say the favorite book I have written is always the one I am working on at the moment, except that Strong Heart must rise to the top for me because it started me on this road and this world that rose before me, like magic, demanding to be told.,..I have three other novels published, from years ago, one an industrial espionage caper, Fat Chance, set in NYC, one about commercial fishing, Chasing Davy Jones, set in the 1970s, and one about a young man finding his power through a sport as his family comes apart around him, Guardian. Fat Chance is a potboiler and a caper, Chasing Davy Jones is really about and for those people who went to sea to fish, a hard-bitten sea story. Guardian starts wrestling with some of the issues Strong Heart explores further - what is it to be a grandparent, to be a young person struggling to find power, to have a great goal?
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What was your inspiration behind this story?
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